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5. HSE and operations
The oil industry is perhaps judged more on its
record on health, safety and the environment
these days than it is on its exploration and
production performance. Serious incidents
make the front pages. Inevitably, the 2010
Macondo disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
comes to mind; this tragic event not only
brought the field operator, BP, to its knees, in
both a reputational and a financial sense, but
cast a pall over the entire global industry.
The HSE challenge in Kazakhstan is daunting:
dealing with production from some of the
sourest reservoirs in the world; operating
under difficult geographic and climate
conditions; and having to work in a region,
the north Caspian Sea, where environmental
sensitivities run extremely high.
Participants in the roadmapping project,
however, placed HSE issues lower down
the list of the 15 prime challenges facing the
Kazakhstan upstream oil and gas industry.
Operational risk reduction in sour conditions
is in the top half of the list but emergency
response and environmental impact come
towards the bottom.
The HSE challenge in Kazakhstan is daunting:
dealing with production from some of the
sourest reservoirs in the world; operating
under difficult geographic and climate
conditions; and having to work in a region,
the north Caspian Sea, where environmental
sensitivities run extremely high.
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4.2 Field Management−Optimise Recovery incl. IOR/EOR
2.1 Equipment and Materials for Sour Services
4.1 Drilling and Well Costs
3.2 Water Management
2.2 Operating in Ice/Cold Climate
5.2 Operational HSE Risk Reduction in Sour Conditions
2.3 Management of Sulphur
1.3 Well Logging and In-Well Monitoring
1.5 Fluid Property Analysis
1.2 Reservoir Description−Geology, Rock and Fluid Interpretation
3.1 Flow Assurance and Sand Control
5.3 Environmental Impact
5.1 Emergency Response and Disaster Recovery
1.1 Seismic Data Aquisition and Processing
1.4 Core Analysis and Data Analysis
Other priority areas
HSE & operations
Kazakhstan Upstream oil & gas technology and R&D roadmap